Peter returns home only to find that his mother has had another child while he was gone and he finally chooses to stay in the gardens. There he meets fantastical characters and embarks on learning adventures. In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the seven-day old Peter leaves his parents’ house and escapes to Kensington Gardens. His infant character from the earlier novel obtained enough popularity to warrant the character’s own children’s book titled Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Barrie did not publish the play until 1929. In 1904, Barrie wrote a play version of Peter Pan featuring a slightly different version of the young boy going on adventures and battling the infamous Captain Hook. Barrie was a Scottish born writer who later moved to London where in 1902 he wrote The Little White Bird featuring his character Peter Pan. The book has the original illustrations by Arthur Rackham and has been stunningly rebound in full leather. Published originally in 1906 by Hodder & Stoughton in London, this first American edition was published in New York by Charles Scribner’s Sons. This is a first American edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. First American edition, Signed by Barrie. M., Illustrated by Arthur Rackam, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
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